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...tender homespun verse, with Jerry an amused and disturbing audience. As Lucy's life becomes more madly muddled, with three men complicating it, the comedy turns slapstick. High spots are Jerry's discomfiting brush with jujitsu at the expert hands of the singing teacher's Japanese houseboy, the free-for-all that follows Mr. Smith's canine persistence in playing go-find with two shriekingly circumstantial derby hats in Lucy's apartment. From this climax, when all Lucy's indiscretions are aired for the helpless mischances they really are, the rest is gay downgrade...
...dismayed the Dukes, they did appreciate technical excellence. Typical is Professor A. Makovsky's amusing Posing for a Portrait (see cut). Longtime instructor in the St. Petersburg Academic Art School, able Illustrator Makovsky showed a pompous bourgeois merchant posing stiffly in a chair while his enthralled chambermaid and houseboy gape over a young artist's shoulder. Nicholas II found it delightful. The picture hung long in the Petrograd Winter Palace...
...suppose. A sober, admirably realistic investigation of the futility of the back-to-the-soil movement among Manhattan's literati, it is written with honesty and humor, acted with understanding, made exciting by King Vidor's intelligent direction. Good shot: Taka, Tony Barrett's absconding Japanese houseboy, tiptoeing across a field of snow...